Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [vb infin] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 2 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 3 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
| 4 | Ironically , Fernandez was a brilliant lobbyist in Washington for more federal funds for New York schools , and he 'll be sorely missed , but he could n't find the time to play the politics of his own backyard . |
| 5 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 6 | I 'd wanted Doug to be with me , but he could n't get the time off . |
| 7 | They could n't remember a time when they had been without it . |
| 8 | He could n't remember a time when going to bed with a woman had n't dulled his interest , acting almost inevitably as a cure for his fascination . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the CEGB , it could n't seize the time and push ahead as fast with its plans as it wanted . |
| 10 | I could n't afford the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn . |
| 12 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 13 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
| 14 | Mortimer had emptied his Browning by now , and could n't risk the time to reload . |
| 15 | ‘ Would n't have the time for it , Vicky . ’ |
| 16 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 17 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
| 18 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
| 19 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 20 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 21 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 22 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
| 23 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
| 24 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 25 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
| 26 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 28 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
| 29 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 30 | I 'm 33 now and I ca n't imagine a time when I would ever consider using it . |